| Navy | The US Navy |
| Type | Destroyer Escort |
| Class | Edsall |
| Pennant | DE 252 |
| Built by | Brown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas, U.S.A.) |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 6 Feb, 1943 |
| Launched | 26 Apr, 1943 |
| Commissioned | 27 Sep, 1943 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Decommissioned 22 May 1946. Recommissioned 6 July 1951. Decommissioned at an unknown date. Stricken 23 September 1968. Sold in October 1970 and broken up for scrap. |
| Noteable events involving Howard D. Crow include: 11 Feb, 1945 |